CA2480208C - Method and system for providing short block length low density parity check (ldpc) codes in support of broadband satellite applications - Google Patents
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Abstract
An approach is provided for encoding short frame length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. An encoder (203) generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder (305) is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder (209) is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. This approach has particular application in digital video broadcast services over satellite.
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Patent Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING
SHORT BLOCK LENGTH LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) CODES
IN SUPPORT OF BROADBAND SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[01] The present invention relates to communication systems, and more particularly to coded systems.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1021 Communication systems employ coding to ensure reliable communication across noisy communication channels. For example, in a wireless (or radio) system, such as a satellite network, noise sources abound, from geographic and environmental factors. These communication channels exhibit a fixed capacity that can be expressed in terms of bits per symbol at certain signal to noise ratio (SNR), defining a theoretical upper limit (known as the Shannon limit).. As a result, coding design has aimed to achieve rates approaching this Shannon limit. This objective is particularly germane to bandwidth constrained satellite systems. One such class of codes that approach the Shannon limit is Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes.
[03] Traditionally, LDPC codes have not been widely deployed because of a number of drawbacks. One drawback is that the LDPC encoding technique is highly complex.
Encoding an LDPC code using its generator matrix would require storing a very large, non-sparse matrix. Additionally, LDPC codes require large blocks to be effective;
consequently, even though parity check matrices of LDPC codes are sparse, storing these matrices is problematic.
[04] From an implementation perspective, a number of challenges are confronted. For example, storage is an important reason why LDPC codes have not become widespread in practice. Length LDPC codes, thus, require greater storage space. Also, a key challenge in LDPC code implementation has been how to achieve the connection network between several processing engines (nodes) in the decoder. Further, the computational load in the decoding process, specifically the check node operations, poses a problem.
Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 2 of 52 1051 Therefore, there is a need for an LDPC communication system that employs simple encoding and decoding processes. There is also a need for using LDPC codes efficiently to support high data rates, without introducing greater complexity. There is also a need to improve performance of LDPC encoders and decoders. There is also a need to minimize storage requirements for implementing LDPC coding.
THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3 of 52 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[06] These and other needs are addressed by the present invention, wherein an approach for encoding short block length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is provided.
An encoder generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code according to one of Tables 1-7 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal. Each of the Tables 1-7 specifies the address of parity bit accumulators. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The approach advantageously provides expedient encoding as well as decoding of LDPC codes, while minimizing storage and processing resources.
[07] According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the LDPC
codes are represented by signals that are modulated according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK (Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
[08] According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the modulated LDPC coded signal is transmitted over a satellite link in support of a broadband satellite application.
[09] According to yet another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the BCH
outer code is based on a generator polynomial of:
g(x)=(1+x+x3+x5+x14)x(1+xb+x8+x"+X14)x(I+x+x2+xb+x +Al +x14)x (l+x +x' +x8 +x10 +x'2 +x'4)X (1+x2 +x +xb +x8 +x' +x" +x13 +X14)X
(1+.X +x' +x8 +x9 +x13 +x14)X(l+x +x5 +xb +xl +x10 +x" +x'3 +x 4)X
(1 +Xl +x& +X' +x10 +.7C' +x'a) X (1+x+X +X +)9 +JC +JC 4) X (1+x3 +xb +.X9 + +x'2 +xl4) X
(I+x +x' +.C 2 +X14) x (I+x+x2 +x3 +x5 +xb +x +xg +X1 +)13 +X,4).
[09A] In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
receiving information bits; and THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3a of 52 generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2)
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING
SHORT BLOCK LENGTH LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) CODES
IN SUPPORT OF BROADBAND SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[01] The present invention relates to communication systems, and more particularly to coded systems.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1021 Communication systems employ coding to ensure reliable communication across noisy communication channels. For example, in a wireless (or radio) system, such as a satellite network, noise sources abound, from geographic and environmental factors. These communication channels exhibit a fixed capacity that can be expressed in terms of bits per symbol at certain signal to noise ratio (SNR), defining a theoretical upper limit (known as the Shannon limit).. As a result, coding design has aimed to achieve rates approaching this Shannon limit. This objective is particularly germane to bandwidth constrained satellite systems. One such class of codes that approach the Shannon limit is Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes.
[03] Traditionally, LDPC codes have not been widely deployed because of a number of drawbacks. One drawback is that the LDPC encoding technique is highly complex.
Encoding an LDPC code using its generator matrix would require storing a very large, non-sparse matrix. Additionally, LDPC codes require large blocks to be effective;
consequently, even though parity check matrices of LDPC codes are sparse, storing these matrices is problematic.
[04] From an implementation perspective, a number of challenges are confronted. For example, storage is an important reason why LDPC codes have not become widespread in practice. Length LDPC codes, thus, require greater storage space. Also, a key challenge in LDPC code implementation has been how to achieve the connection network between several processing engines (nodes) in the decoder. Further, the computational load in the decoding process, specifically the check node operations, poses a problem.
Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 2 of 52 1051 Therefore, there is a need for an LDPC communication system that employs simple encoding and decoding processes. There is also a need for using LDPC codes efficiently to support high data rates, without introducing greater complexity. There is also a need to improve performance of LDPC encoders and decoders. There is also a need to minimize storage requirements for implementing LDPC coding.
THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3 of 52 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[06] These and other needs are addressed by the present invention, wherein an approach for encoding short block length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is provided.
An encoder generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code according to one of Tables 1-7 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal. Each of the Tables 1-7 specifies the address of parity bit accumulators. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The approach advantageously provides expedient encoding as well as decoding of LDPC codes, while minimizing storage and processing resources.
[07] According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the LDPC
codes are represented by signals that are modulated according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK (Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
[08] According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the modulated LDPC coded signal is transmitted over a satellite link in support of a broadband satellite application.
[09] According to yet another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, the BCH
outer code is based on a generator polynomial of:
g(x)=(1+x+x3+x5+x14)x(1+xb+x8+x"+X14)x(I+x+x2+xb+x +Al +x14)x (l+x +x' +x8 +x10 +x'2 +x'4)X (1+x2 +x +xb +x8 +x' +x" +x13 +X14)X
(1+.X +x' +x8 +x9 +x13 +x14)X(l+x +x5 +xb +xl +x10 +x" +x'3 +x 4)X
(1 +Xl +x& +X' +x10 +.7C' +x'a) X (1+x+X +X +)9 +JC +JC 4) X (1+x3 +xb +.X9 + +x'2 +xl4) X
(I+x +x' +.C 2 +X14) x (I+x+x2 +x3 +x5 +xb +x +xg +X1 +)13 +X,4).
[09A] In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
receiving information bits; and THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3a of 52 generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2)
2 6694 212 Table 1 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3b of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) 4951 211 2208. 723 1246 2928 398 5739 265 5601 5993 2615
Page 3b of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) 4951 211 2208. 723 1246 2928 398 5739 265 5601 5993 2615
3 3971 1057
4 5985 6062 Table 2 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3c of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
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Page 3c of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3d of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4)
5 1774 3447
6 3632 1257
7 542 3694
8 1015 1945
9 1948 412
10 995 2238
11 4141 1907 Table 4 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3e of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) 93545 1168 Table 5 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
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Page 3i of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10.
[09B] In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an encoder for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
means for receiving information bits; and means for generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3j of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2)
Page 3e of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) 93545 1168 Table 5 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page3fof52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
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Page 3h of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3i of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10.
[09B] In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an encoder for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
means for receiving information bits; and means for generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 3j of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2)
12 3028 764
13 5988 1057
14 7411 3450 Table 1 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
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Page 3r of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10 [09C] In accordance with a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided A
transmitter for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder configured to receive information bits;
and a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder coupled to the BCH encoder for outputting, based on the information bits, an LDPC code having an outer BCH code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
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Page 3s of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table I
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Page 3za of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10 [10] Still other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention are readily apparent from the following detailed description, simply by illustrating a number of particular embodiments and implementations, including the best mode contemplated for carrying out Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 4 of 52 the present invention. The present invention is also capable of other and different embodiments, and its several details can be modified in various obvious respects, all without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the drawing and description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature, and not as restrictive.
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1111 The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:
1121 FIG. I is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of the present invention;
1131 FIGs. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in the transmitter of FIG. 1;
[14] FIG. 2C is a flowchart of the encoding process of the LDPC encoder of FIG. 2B for generating short frame length LDPC codes, according to one embodiment of the present invention;
1151 FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1;
(16] FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
[17] FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrix of FIG. 4;
1181 FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix, wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to the lower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the present invention; and [19] FIG. 7 is a diagram of a computer system that can perform the LDPC
encoding process, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
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[201 A system, method, and software for efficiently encoding short frame length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are described. In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details or with an equivalent arrangement. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
1211 FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of the present invention. A digital communications system 100 includes a transmitter 101 that generates signal waveforms across a communication channel 103 to a receiver 105. In this discrete communications system 100, the transmitter 101 has a message source that produces a discrete set of possible messages; each of the possible messages has a corresponding signal waveform.
These signal waveforms are attenuated, or otherwise altered, by communications channel 103.
To combat the noise channel 103, LDPC codes are utilized.
1221 By way of example, the channel 103 is a satellite link serving satellite terminals (e.g., Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs)) in support of broadband satellite applications.
Such applications include satellite broadcasting and interactive services (and compliant with the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - S2 standard). The Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (DVB-S) standard has been widely adopted worldwide to provide, for instance, digital satellite television programming.
1231 The LDPC codes that are generated by the transmitter 101 enable high speed implementation without incurring any performance loss. These structured LDPC
codes output from the transmitter 101 avoid assignment of a small number of check nodes to the bit nodes already vulnerable to channel errors by virtue of the modulation scheme (e.g., 8-PSK).
[24) Such LDPC codes have a parallelizable decoding algorithm (unlike turbo codes), which advantageously involves simple operations such as addition, comparison and table look-up. Moreover, carefully designed LDPC codes do not exhibit any sign of error floor.
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Page 7 of 52 [25] According to one embodiment of the present invention, the transmitter 101 generates, using a relatively simple encoding technique, LDPC codes based on parity check matrices (which facilitate efficient memory access during decoding) to communicate with the receiver 105. The transmitter 101 employs LDPC codes that can outperform concatenated turbo+RS
(Reed-Solomon) codes, provided the block length is sufficiently large.
1261 FIGs. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in the transmitter of FIG. 1. As seen in FIG. 2A, a transmitter 200 is equipped with an LDPC
encoder 203 that accepts input from an information source 201 and outputs coded stream of higher redundancy suitable for error correction processing at the receiver 105. The information source 201 generates k signals from a discrete alphabet, X. LDPC
codes are specified with parity check matrices. On the other hand, encoding LDPC codes require, in general, specifying the generator matrices. Even though it is possible to obtain generator matrices from parity check matrices using Gaussian elimination, the resulting matrix is no longer sparse and storing a large generator matrix can be complex.
[27] The encoder 203 generates signals from alphabet Yto a modulator 205 using a simple encoding technique that makes use of only the parity check matrix by imposing structure onto the parity check matrix. Specifically, a restriction is placed on the parity check matrix by constraining certain portion of the matrix to be triangular. The construction of such a parity check matrix is described more fully below in FIG. 6. Such a restriction results in negligible performance loss, and therefore, constitutes an attractive trade-off.
[28] The modulator 205 maps the encoded messages from encoder 203 to signal waveforms that are transmitted to a transmit antenna 207, which emits these waveforms over the communication channel 103. Accordingly, the encoded messages are modulated and distributed to a transmit antenna 207. The transmissions from the transmit antenna 207 propagate to a receiver (shown in FIG. 3), as discussed below.
[29) FIG. 2B shows an LDPC encoder utilized with a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder, according to one embodiment of the present invention. Under this scenario, the codes generated by the LDPC
encoder 203, along with the CRC encoder 209 and the BCH encoder 211, have a concatenated outer BCH
code and inner low density parity check (LDPC) code. Furthermore, error detection is achieved using cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes. The CRC encoder 209, in an Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 8 of 52 exemplary embodiment, encodes using an 8-bit CRC code with generator polynomial (x5+x4+x3+x2+1)(x2+x+1)(x+1). The CRC code is output to the BCH encoder 211.
[30] FIG. 2C provides a flowchart of the encoding process of the LDPC encoder of FIG.
2B for generating short frame length LDPC codes, according to one embodiment of the present invention. In step 211, information bits are received and processed to the chain of encoders 209, 211, and 203. Consequently, the LDPC encoder 203 generates LDPC
codes with outer BCH codes based on the received information bits, as in step 223.
The codes also contain the CRC code. Next, the LDPC codes are represented by signals that are modulated, per step 225, for transmission over the channel 103, which in an exemplary embodiment, is a satellite link to one or more satellite terminals (step 227).
1311 The LDPC encoder 203 systematically encodes an information block of size k,dpc , i= (io,i,,...,ik Japc-,) onto a codeword of size nidPc , c= (io,i,,...,ikldpc-I , PO , Pi ,... pniep ). The ~-k,apc-~
transmission of the codeword starts in the given order from io and ends with pndpc-kdK-, LDPC code parameters (nidpc , k,dpc ) .
[32] The task of the LDPC encoder 203 is to detertnine nrdpc - krdpc parity bits (Po,P,,===,P~,dpc-k,,,x-,)forevery block of k,dpc information bits, (lo ,lp ... ikk,_-~). The procedure is as follows. First, the parity bits are initialized;
Po = P, = P2 =... = Pn,dp -k,,,c -1 = 0. The first information bit, io , are accumulated at parity bit addresses specified in the first row of Tables 1-7. By way of example, kldp, bits are systematically encoded to generate nldPc bits. According to one embodiment of the present invention, nidpc is 16200 bits, which is a short block length. Given the relatively short length of such codes, LDPC codes having approximate lengths of 16200 bits or less are deemed "short" block length codes. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the parameters of the short frame length codes are provided in Table 8.
1331 After all of the information bits are exhausted, the final parity bits are obtained as follows. First, the following operations are performed, starting with i=1 Pi = Pi pi-1, Z= 1,2,..., nidpc - kidpc - 1.
Final content of p; , i = 0,1,.., nldpc - kldpc - 1 is equal to the parity bit p; .
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Page 16 of 52 1341 Tables 8-10 provide other exemplary code rates, 1/3, 1/5 and 2/5 for nidp, of 16200 bits:
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Page 17 of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10 [351 After all of the information bits are exhausted, the final parity bits are obtained as follows. First, the following operations are performed, starting with i = 1 Pr = Pr Pr-i , i=1,2,..., nidPc - kldpc -1.
Final content of p; , i = 0,1,.., n,dP, - k,dFc - 1 is equal to the parity bit p; .
1361 As regards the BCH encoder 211, the BCH code parameters are enumerated in Table 11, witli nidpc.equal to 16200.
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Page 18 of 52 [37] The generator polynomial of the BCH code utilized by the BCH encoder 211 is as follows:
g(x) = (I+x+x3 +xs +x14 ) X (1 +x6 +x8 +.~ 1 +x14 ) x (1 +x+xz +xb +x9 +x10 +x14) X
(1+z +x1 +x8+Al +x12+x14)X(1+x2+x +2 +x8+x +x11 +x13+XI4)X
(1+x3 +x' +xg +x +Y3 +x14)x(1+x2 +xs +x6 +x' +Y0 +Yt +Y3 +x14)X
(1+x5 +x8+x9+z1 +x" +Y4)x(l+x+xl +x3+x9+X1 +xi4)x(I+x3+x6+x9+Y' +X12 +y')x (1+x4 +X 1 +x12 +.C 4)x(I+x+xZ +x3 +xs +x6 +x' +x8 +Y0 +x3 +Y4).
[38] BCH encoding of information bits m=(mk,F _, , mk,ry _Z ,..., m, ) m ) onto a codeword c= (mk,n-15mkb,4-21 ...,mõm ,d"bh_kbh-õd"&h-kb,,_21...,dõd )is achieved as follows. The message polynomial m(x) = mkhrh_,xk, h-' + mk,p_zxkl"-Z +... + m,x + m is multiplied by x"k11. Next, x" , -k1," m(x) divided by g(x). With d(x) = dn&-q-k&-p-1x"kn-k'~h -' +... + d1x+ d0 as the remainder, the codeword polynomial is set as follows: c(x) = x"--k'~" m(x) + d(x).
[39] As mentioned, the above LDPC codes, in an exemplary embodiment, can be used to variety of digital video applications, such as MPEG (Motion Pictures Expert Group) packet transmission.
[40] FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1. At the receiving side, a receiver 300 includes a demodulator 301 that performs demodulation of received signals from transmitter 200. These signals are received at a receive antenna 303 for demodulation. After demodulation, the received signals are forwarded to a decoder 305, which attempts to reconstruct the original source messages by generating messages, X; in conjunction with a bit metric generator 307. The bit metric generator 307 may exchange information with the decoder 305 back and forth (iteratively) during the decoding process.
These decoding approaches are more fully described in co-pending application, entitled "Method and System for Routing in Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Decoders,"
filed July 3, 2003 (Publication No. US2004-0153960 Al). To appreciate the advantages offered by the present invention, it is instructive to examine how LDPC codes are generated, as discussed in FIG. 4.
1411 FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. LDPC codes are long, linear block codes with sparse parity check matrix H(õ_k)xõ . Typically the block length, n, ranges from thousands to tens of Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 19 of 52 thousands of bits. For example, a parity check matrix for an LDPC code of length n=8 and rate'/z is shown in FIG. 4. The same code can be equivalently represented by the bipartite graph, per FIG. 5.
1421 FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrix of FIG. 4.
Parity check equations imply that for each check node, the sum (over GF
(Galois Field)(2)) of all adjacent bit nodes is equal to zero. As seen in the figure, bit nodes occupy the left side of the graph and are associated with one or more check nodes, according to a predetermined relationship. For example, corresponding to check node m, , the following expression exists n, + n4 + ns + n8 = 0 with respect to the bit nodes.
[431 Returning the receiver 303, the LDPC decoder 305 is considered a message passing decoder, whereby the decoder 305 aims to find the values of bit nodes. To accomplish this task, bit nodes and check nodes iteratively communicate with each other. The nature of this communication is described below.
1441 From check nodes to bit nodes, each check node provides to an adjacent bit node an estimate ("opinion") regarding the value of that bit node based on the information coming from other adjacent bit nodes. For instance, in the above example if the sum of n4 , n5 and ne "looks like" 0 to m, , then m, would indicate to n, that the value of n, is believed to be 0 (since n, + n4 + ns + n$ = 0); otherwise m, indicate to n, that the value of n, is believed to be 1. Additionally, for soft decision decoding, a reliability measure is added.
[451 From bit nodes to check nodes, each bit node relays to an adjacent check node an estimate about its own value based on the feedback coming from its other adjacent check nodes. In the above example n, has only two adjacent check nodes m, and m, .
If the feedback coming from m, to n, indicates that the value of n, is probably 0, then n, would notify m, that an estimate of n, 's own value is 0. For the case in which the bit node has more than two adjacent check nodes, the bit node performs a majority vote (soft decision) on the feedback coming from its other adjacent check nodes before reporting that decision to the check node it communicates. The above process is repeated until all bit nodes are considered to be correct (i.e., all parity check equations are satisfied) or until a predetermined maximum number of iterations is reached, whereby a decoding failure is declared.
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Page 20 of 52 [461 FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix, wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to the lower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the present invention. As described previously, the encoder 203 (of FIGs. 2A
and 2B) can employ a simple encoding technique by restricting the values of the lower triangular area of the parity check matrix. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the restriction imposed on the parity check matrix is of the form:
H(n-k)xn - [`4(n-k)xk B(n-k)x(n-k)~
where B is lower triangular.
(47) Any information block i=(io, i, ,..., ik-, ) is encoded to a codeword c=(io )i i,===, ik_, , Po I P, ~===Pn-k-1) using HeT = 0, and recursively solving for parity bits; for example, aooio + aoiil +... + ao k-,ik-t + po = 0=> Solve po a,oio + aõi, +... + a, k-tlk-1 + b,opo + P, = 0=::> Solve p, and similarly for pZ, p3,. ..,pn-k-l.
[48] FIG. 7 illustrates a computer system upon which an embodiment according to the present invention can be implemented. The computer system 700 includes a bus 701 or other communication mechanism for communicating information, and a processor 703 coupled to the bus 701 for processing information. The computer system 700 also includes main memory 705, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to the bus 701 for storing information and instructions to be executed by the processor 703. Main memory 705 can also be used for storing temporary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions to be executed by the processor 703. The computer system 700 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 707 or other static storage device coupled to the bus 701 for storing static information and instructions for the processor 703. A storage device 709, such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is additionally coupled to the bus 701 for storing information and instructions.
1491 The computer system 700 may be coupled via the bus 701 to a display 711, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display, active matrix display, or plasma display, for displaying information to a computer user. An input device 713, such as a keyboard including alphanumeric and other keys, is coupled to the bus 701 for communicating Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIltECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 21 of 52 information and command selections to the processor 703. Another type of user input device is cursor contro1715, such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating direction information and command selections to the processor 703 and for controlling cursor movement on the display 711.
1501 According to one embodiment of the invention, generation of LDPC codes is provided by the computer system 700 in response to the processor 703 executing an arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 705. Such instructions can be read into main memory 705 from another computer-readable medium, such as the storage device 709.
Execution of the arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 705 causes the processor 703 to perform the process steps described herein. One or more processors in a multi-processing anangement may also be employed to execute the instructions contained in main memory 705. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the embodiment of the present invention. Thus, embodiments of the present invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
1511 The computer system 700 also includes a communication interface 717 coupled to bus 701. The communication interface 717 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 719 connected to a local network 721. For example, the communication interface 717 may be a digital subscriber line (DSL) card or modem, an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card, a cable modem, or a telephone modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line. As another example, communication interface 717 may be a local area network (LAN) card (e.g. for EthernetTM or an Asynchronous Transfer Model (ATM) network) to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN. Wireless links can also be implemented. In any such implementation, communication interface 717 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information.
Further, the communication interface 717 can include peripheral interface devices, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) interface, etc.
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Page 22 of 52 through local network 721 to a host computer 723, which has connectivity to a network 725 (e.g. a wide area network (WAN) or the global packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the "Internet") or to data equipment operated by service provider.
The local network 721 and network 725 both use electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals to convey information and instructions. The signals through the various networks and the signals on network link 719 and through communication interface 717, which communicate digital data with computer system 700, are exemplary forms of carrier waves bearing the information and instructions.
1531 The computer system 700 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s), network link 719, and communication interface 717. In the Internet example, a server (not shown) might transmit requested code belonging to an application program for implementing an embodiment of the present invention through the network 725, local network 721 and communication interface 717. The processor 703 may execute the transmitted code while being received and/or store the code in storage device 79, or other non-volatile storage for later execution. In this manner, computer system 700 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.
[54] The term "computer-readable medium" as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to the processor 703 for execution.
Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. Non-volatile media include, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as storage device 709. Volatile media include dynamic memory, such as main memory 705.
Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise bus 701. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic, optical, or electromagnetic waves, such as those generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) data communications. Common forms of computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD, any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, optical mark sheets, any other physical medium with patterns of holes or other optically recognizable indicia, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
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Page 23 of 52 [55] Various forms of computer-readable media may be involved in providing instructions to a processor for execution. For example, the instructions for carrying out at least part of the present invention may initially be borne on a magnetic disk of a remote computer. In such a scenario, the remote computer loads the instructions into main memory and sends the instructions over a telephone line using a modem. A modem of a local computer system receives the data on the telephone line and uses an infrared transmitter to convert the data to an infrared signal and transmit the infrared signal to a portable computing device, such as a personal digital assistance (PDA) and a laptop. An infrared detector on the portable computing device receives the information and instructions borne by the infrared signal and places the data on a bus. The bus conveys the data to main memory, from which a processor retrieves and executes the instructions. The instructions received by main memory may optionally be stored on storage device either before or after execution by processor.
[56] Accordingly, the various embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for encoding short block length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. An encoder generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal.
Each of the Tables 1-10 specifies the address of parity bit accumulators. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The above approach advantageously yields reduced complexity without sacrificing performance.
[571 While the present invention has been described in connection with a number of embodiments and implementations, the present invention is not so limited but covers various obvious modifications and equivalent arrangements, which fall within the purview of the appended claims.
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transmitter for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder configured to receive information bits;
and a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder coupled to the BCH encoder for outputting, based on the information bits, an LDPC code having an outer BCH code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
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Page 4 of 52 the present invention. The present invention is also capable of other and different embodiments, and its several details can be modified in various obvious respects, all without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the drawing and description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature, and not as restrictive.
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1111 The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:
1121 FIG. I is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of the present invention;
1131 FIGs. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in the transmitter of FIG. 1;
[14] FIG. 2C is a flowchart of the encoding process of the LDPC encoder of FIG. 2B for generating short frame length LDPC codes, according to one embodiment of the present invention;
1151 FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1;
(16] FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
[17] FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrix of FIG. 4;
1181 FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix, wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to the lower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the present invention; and [19] FIG. 7 is a diagram of a computer system that can perform the LDPC
encoding process, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
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Page 6 of 52 DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[201 A system, method, and software for efficiently encoding short frame length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are described. In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details or with an equivalent arrangement. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
1211 FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications system configured to utilize Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, according to an embodiment of the present invention. A digital communications system 100 includes a transmitter 101 that generates signal waveforms across a communication channel 103 to a receiver 105. In this discrete communications system 100, the transmitter 101 has a message source that produces a discrete set of possible messages; each of the possible messages has a corresponding signal waveform.
These signal waveforms are attenuated, or otherwise altered, by communications channel 103.
To combat the noise channel 103, LDPC codes are utilized.
1221 By way of example, the channel 103 is a satellite link serving satellite terminals (e.g., Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs)) in support of broadband satellite applications.
Such applications include satellite broadcasting and interactive services (and compliant with the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - S2 standard). The Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (DVB-S) standard has been widely adopted worldwide to provide, for instance, digital satellite television programming.
1231 The LDPC codes that are generated by the transmitter 101 enable high speed implementation without incurring any performance loss. These structured LDPC
codes output from the transmitter 101 avoid assignment of a small number of check nodes to the bit nodes already vulnerable to channel errors by virtue of the modulation scheme (e.g., 8-PSK).
[24) Such LDPC codes have a parallelizable decoding algorithm (unlike turbo codes), which advantageously involves simple operations such as addition, comparison and table look-up. Moreover, carefully designed LDPC codes do not exhibit any sign of error floor.
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Page 7 of 52 [25] According to one embodiment of the present invention, the transmitter 101 generates, using a relatively simple encoding technique, LDPC codes based on parity check matrices (which facilitate efficient memory access during decoding) to communicate with the receiver 105. The transmitter 101 employs LDPC codes that can outperform concatenated turbo+RS
(Reed-Solomon) codes, provided the block length is sufficiently large.
1261 FIGs. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary LDPC encoders deployed in the transmitter of FIG. 1. As seen in FIG. 2A, a transmitter 200 is equipped with an LDPC
encoder 203 that accepts input from an information source 201 and outputs coded stream of higher redundancy suitable for error correction processing at the receiver 105. The information source 201 generates k signals from a discrete alphabet, X. LDPC
codes are specified with parity check matrices. On the other hand, encoding LDPC codes require, in general, specifying the generator matrices. Even though it is possible to obtain generator matrices from parity check matrices using Gaussian elimination, the resulting matrix is no longer sparse and storing a large generator matrix can be complex.
[27] The encoder 203 generates signals from alphabet Yto a modulator 205 using a simple encoding technique that makes use of only the parity check matrix by imposing structure onto the parity check matrix. Specifically, a restriction is placed on the parity check matrix by constraining certain portion of the matrix to be triangular. The construction of such a parity check matrix is described more fully below in FIG. 6. Such a restriction results in negligible performance loss, and therefore, constitutes an attractive trade-off.
[28] The modulator 205 maps the encoded messages from encoder 203 to signal waveforms that are transmitted to a transmit antenna 207, which emits these waveforms over the communication channel 103. Accordingly, the encoded messages are modulated and distributed to a transmit antenna 207. The transmissions from the transmit antenna 207 propagate to a receiver (shown in FIG. 3), as discussed below.
[29) FIG. 2B shows an LDPC encoder utilized with a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder, according to one embodiment of the present invention. Under this scenario, the codes generated by the LDPC
encoder 203, along with the CRC encoder 209 and the BCH encoder 211, have a concatenated outer BCH
code and inner low density parity check (LDPC) code. Furthermore, error detection is achieved using cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes. The CRC encoder 209, in an Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 8 of 52 exemplary embodiment, encodes using an 8-bit CRC code with generator polynomial (x5+x4+x3+x2+1)(x2+x+1)(x+1). The CRC code is output to the BCH encoder 211.
[30] FIG. 2C provides a flowchart of the encoding process of the LDPC encoder of FIG.
2B for generating short frame length LDPC codes, according to one embodiment of the present invention. In step 211, information bits are received and processed to the chain of encoders 209, 211, and 203. Consequently, the LDPC encoder 203 generates LDPC
codes with outer BCH codes based on the received information bits, as in step 223.
The codes also contain the CRC code. Next, the LDPC codes are represented by signals that are modulated, per step 225, for transmission over the channel 103, which in an exemplary embodiment, is a satellite link to one or more satellite terminals (step 227).
1311 The LDPC encoder 203 systematically encodes an information block of size k,dpc , i= (io,i,,...,ik Japc-,) onto a codeword of size nidPc , c= (io,i,,...,ikldpc-I , PO , Pi ,... pniep ). The ~-k,apc-~
transmission of the codeword starts in the given order from io and ends with pndpc-kdK-, LDPC code parameters (nidpc , k,dpc ) .
[32] The task of the LDPC encoder 203 is to detertnine nrdpc - krdpc parity bits (Po,P,,===,P~,dpc-k,,,x-,)forevery block of k,dpc information bits, (lo ,lp ... ikk,_-~). The procedure is as follows. First, the parity bits are initialized;
Po = P, = P2 =... = Pn,dp -k,,,c -1 = 0. The first information bit, io , are accumulated at parity bit addresses specified in the first row of Tables 1-7. By way of example, kldp, bits are systematically encoded to generate nldPc bits. According to one embodiment of the present invention, nidpc is 16200 bits, which is a short block length. Given the relatively short length of such codes, LDPC codes having approximate lengths of 16200 bits or less are deemed "short" block length codes. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the parameters of the short frame length codes are provided in Table 8.
1331 After all of the information bits are exhausted, the final parity bits are obtained as follows. First, the following operations are performed, starting with i=1 Pi = Pi pi-1, Z= 1,2,..., nidpc - kidpc - 1.
Final content of p; , i = 0,1,.., nldpc - kldpc - 1 is equal to the parity bit p; .
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Page 16 of 52 1341 Tables 8-10 provide other exemplary code rates, 1/3, 1/5 and 2/5 for nidp, of 16200 bits:
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Page 17 of 52 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10 [351 After all of the information bits are exhausted, the final parity bits are obtained as follows. First, the following operations are performed, starting with i = 1 Pr = Pr Pr-i , i=1,2,..., nidPc - kldpc -1.
Final content of p; , i = 0,1,.., n,dP, - k,dFc - 1 is equal to the parity bit p; .
1361 As regards the BCH encoder 211, the BCH code parameters are enumerated in Table 11, witli nidpc.equal to 16200.
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Page 18 of 52 [37] The generator polynomial of the BCH code utilized by the BCH encoder 211 is as follows:
g(x) = (I+x+x3 +xs +x14 ) X (1 +x6 +x8 +.~ 1 +x14 ) x (1 +x+xz +xb +x9 +x10 +x14) X
(1+z +x1 +x8+Al +x12+x14)X(1+x2+x +2 +x8+x +x11 +x13+XI4)X
(1+x3 +x' +xg +x +Y3 +x14)x(1+x2 +xs +x6 +x' +Y0 +Yt +Y3 +x14)X
(1+x5 +x8+x9+z1 +x" +Y4)x(l+x+xl +x3+x9+X1 +xi4)x(I+x3+x6+x9+Y' +X12 +y')x (1+x4 +X 1 +x12 +.C 4)x(I+x+xZ +x3 +xs +x6 +x' +x8 +Y0 +x3 +Y4).
[38] BCH encoding of information bits m=(mk,F _, , mk,ry _Z ,..., m, ) m ) onto a codeword c= (mk,n-15mkb,4-21 ...,mõm ,d"bh_kbh-õd"&h-kb,,_21...,dõd )is achieved as follows. The message polynomial m(x) = mkhrh_,xk, h-' + mk,p_zxkl"-Z +... + m,x + m is multiplied by x"k11. Next, x" , -k1," m(x) divided by g(x). With d(x) = dn&-q-k&-p-1x"kn-k'~h -' +... + d1x+ d0 as the remainder, the codeword polynomial is set as follows: c(x) = x"--k'~" m(x) + d(x).
[39] As mentioned, the above LDPC codes, in an exemplary embodiment, can be used to variety of digital video applications, such as MPEG (Motion Pictures Expert Group) packet transmission.
[40] FIG. 3 is a diagram of an exemplary receiver in the system of FIG. 1. At the receiving side, a receiver 300 includes a demodulator 301 that performs demodulation of received signals from transmitter 200. These signals are received at a receive antenna 303 for demodulation. After demodulation, the received signals are forwarded to a decoder 305, which attempts to reconstruct the original source messages by generating messages, X; in conjunction with a bit metric generator 307. The bit metric generator 307 may exchange information with the decoder 305 back and forth (iteratively) during the decoding process.
These decoding approaches are more fully described in co-pending application, entitled "Method and System for Routing in Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Decoders,"
filed July 3, 2003 (Publication No. US2004-0153960 Al). To appreciate the advantages offered by the present invention, it is instructive to examine how LDPC codes are generated, as discussed in FIG. 4.
1411 FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sparse parity check matrix, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. LDPC codes are long, linear block codes with sparse parity check matrix H(õ_k)xõ . Typically the block length, n, ranges from thousands to tens of Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 19 of 52 thousands of bits. For example, a parity check matrix for an LDPC code of length n=8 and rate'/z is shown in FIG. 4. The same code can be equivalently represented by the bipartite graph, per FIG. 5.
1421 FIG. 5 is a diagram of a bipartite graph of an LDPC code of the matrix of FIG. 4.
Parity check equations imply that for each check node, the sum (over GF
(Galois Field)(2)) of all adjacent bit nodes is equal to zero. As seen in the figure, bit nodes occupy the left side of the graph and are associated with one or more check nodes, according to a predetermined relationship. For example, corresponding to check node m, , the following expression exists n, + n4 + ns + n8 = 0 with respect to the bit nodes.
[431 Returning the receiver 303, the LDPC decoder 305 is considered a message passing decoder, whereby the decoder 305 aims to find the values of bit nodes. To accomplish this task, bit nodes and check nodes iteratively communicate with each other. The nature of this communication is described below.
1441 From check nodes to bit nodes, each check node provides to an adjacent bit node an estimate ("opinion") regarding the value of that bit node based on the information coming from other adjacent bit nodes. For instance, in the above example if the sum of n4 , n5 and ne "looks like" 0 to m, , then m, would indicate to n, that the value of n, is believed to be 0 (since n, + n4 + ns + n$ = 0); otherwise m, indicate to n, that the value of n, is believed to be 1. Additionally, for soft decision decoding, a reliability measure is added.
[451 From bit nodes to check nodes, each bit node relays to an adjacent check node an estimate about its own value based on the feedback coming from its other adjacent check nodes. In the above example n, has only two adjacent check nodes m, and m, .
If the feedback coming from m, to n, indicates that the value of n, is probably 0, then n, would notify m, that an estimate of n, 's own value is 0. For the case in which the bit node has more than two adjacent check nodes, the bit node performs a majority vote (soft decision) on the feedback coming from its other adjacent check nodes before reporting that decision to the check node it communicates. The above process is repeated until all bit nodes are considered to be correct (i.e., all parity check equations are satisfied) or until a predetermined maximum number of iterations is reached, whereby a decoding failure is declared.
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Page 20 of 52 [461 FIG. 6 is a diagram of a sub-matrix of a sparse parity check matrix, wherein the sub-matrix contains parity check values restricted to the lower triangular region, according to an embodiment of the present invention. As described previously, the encoder 203 (of FIGs. 2A
and 2B) can employ a simple encoding technique by restricting the values of the lower triangular area of the parity check matrix. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the restriction imposed on the parity check matrix is of the form:
H(n-k)xn - [`4(n-k)xk B(n-k)x(n-k)~
where B is lower triangular.
(47) Any information block i=(io, i, ,..., ik-, ) is encoded to a codeword c=(io )i i,===, ik_, , Po I P, ~===Pn-k-1) using HeT = 0, and recursively solving for parity bits; for example, aooio + aoiil +... + ao k-,ik-t + po = 0=> Solve po a,oio + aõi, +... + a, k-tlk-1 + b,opo + P, = 0=::> Solve p, and similarly for pZ, p3,. ..,pn-k-l.
[48] FIG. 7 illustrates a computer system upon which an embodiment according to the present invention can be implemented. The computer system 700 includes a bus 701 or other communication mechanism for communicating information, and a processor 703 coupled to the bus 701 for processing information. The computer system 700 also includes main memory 705, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to the bus 701 for storing information and instructions to be executed by the processor 703. Main memory 705 can also be used for storing temporary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions to be executed by the processor 703. The computer system 700 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 707 or other static storage device coupled to the bus 701 for storing static information and instructions for the processor 703. A storage device 709, such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is additionally coupled to the bus 701 for storing information and instructions.
1491 The computer system 700 may be coupled via the bus 701 to a display 711, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display, active matrix display, or plasma display, for displaying information to a computer user. An input device 713, such as a keyboard including alphanumeric and other keys, is coupled to the bus 701 for communicating Attorney Docket No. PD-203080 THE DIltECTV GROUP, INC.
Page 21 of 52 information and command selections to the processor 703. Another type of user input device is cursor contro1715, such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating direction information and command selections to the processor 703 and for controlling cursor movement on the display 711.
1501 According to one embodiment of the invention, generation of LDPC codes is provided by the computer system 700 in response to the processor 703 executing an arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 705. Such instructions can be read into main memory 705 from another computer-readable medium, such as the storage device 709.
Execution of the arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 705 causes the processor 703 to perform the process steps described herein. One or more processors in a multi-processing anangement may also be employed to execute the instructions contained in main memory 705. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the embodiment of the present invention. Thus, embodiments of the present invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
1511 The computer system 700 also includes a communication interface 717 coupled to bus 701. The communication interface 717 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 719 connected to a local network 721. For example, the communication interface 717 may be a digital subscriber line (DSL) card or modem, an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card, a cable modem, or a telephone modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line. As another example, communication interface 717 may be a local area network (LAN) card (e.g. for EthernetTM or an Asynchronous Transfer Model (ATM) network) to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN. Wireless links can also be implemented. In any such implementation, communication interface 717 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information.
Further, the communication interface 717 can include peripheral interface devices, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) interface, etc.
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Page 22 of 52 through local network 721 to a host computer 723, which has connectivity to a network 725 (e.g. a wide area network (WAN) or the global packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the "Internet") or to data equipment operated by service provider.
The local network 721 and network 725 both use electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals to convey information and instructions. The signals through the various networks and the signals on network link 719 and through communication interface 717, which communicate digital data with computer system 700, are exemplary forms of carrier waves bearing the information and instructions.
1531 The computer system 700 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s), network link 719, and communication interface 717. In the Internet example, a server (not shown) might transmit requested code belonging to an application program for implementing an embodiment of the present invention through the network 725, local network 721 and communication interface 717. The processor 703 may execute the transmitted code while being received and/or store the code in storage device 79, or other non-volatile storage for later execution. In this manner, computer system 700 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.
[54] The term "computer-readable medium" as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to the processor 703 for execution.
Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. Non-volatile media include, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as storage device 709. Volatile media include dynamic memory, such as main memory 705.
Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise bus 701. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic, optical, or electromagnetic waves, such as those generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) data communications. Common forms of computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD, any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, optical mark sheets, any other physical medium with patterns of holes or other optically recognizable indicia, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
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Page 23 of 52 [55] Various forms of computer-readable media may be involved in providing instructions to a processor for execution. For example, the instructions for carrying out at least part of the present invention may initially be borne on a magnetic disk of a remote computer. In such a scenario, the remote computer loads the instructions into main memory and sends the instructions over a telephone line using a modem. A modem of a local computer system receives the data on the telephone line and uses an infrared transmitter to convert the data to an infrared signal and transmit the infrared signal to a portable computing device, such as a personal digital assistance (PDA) and a laptop. An infrared detector on the portable computing device receives the information and instructions borne by the infrared signal and places the data on a bus. The bus conveys the data to main memory, from which a processor retrieves and executes the instructions. The instructions received by main memory may optionally be stored on storage device either before or after execution by processor.
[56] Accordingly, the various embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for encoding short block length Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. An encoder generates a LDPC code having an outer Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal.
Each of the Tables 1-10 specifies the address of parity bit accumulators. Structure is imposed on the LDPC codes by restricting portion part of the parity check matrix to be lower triangular and/or satisfying other requirements such that the communication between bit nodes and check nodes of the decoder is simplified. Further, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoder is supplied to encode the input signal according to a CRC code. The above approach advantageously yields reduced complexity without sacrificing performance.
[571 While the present invention has been described in connection with a number of embodiments and implementations, the present invention is not so limited but covers various obvious modifications and equivalent arrangements, which fall within the purview of the appended claims.
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1. A method for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
receiving information bits; and generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
receiving information bits; and generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) outer code is used based on a generator polynomial of:
g(x)=(1+x+x3 +x5+x14)x(1+x6+x8+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x6+x9+x10+x14)X
(1+x4 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x12 +x14)X(1+x2 +x4 +x6 +x8 +X9 +x11 +x13 +x14)X
(1 +x3 +x7 +x8 +x9 +x13 +x14) X (1 +x2 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x10 +x11 +x13 +x14)X
(1 +x5 +x8 +x9 +x10 +x11 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x9 +x10 +x14)X(1+x3 +x6 +x9 +x11 +x12 +x14)X
(1+x4 + x11 +x12 +x14)X (1+x+X2 +x3 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x13 +x14).
g(x)=(1+x+x3 +x5+x14)x(1+x6+x8+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x6+x9+x10+x14)X
(1+x4 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x12 +x14)X(1+x2 +x4 +x6 +x8 +X9 +x11 +x13 +x14)X
(1 +x3 +x7 +x8 +x9 +x13 +x14) X (1 +x2 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x10 +x11 +x13 +x14)X
(1 +x5 +x8 +x9 +x10 +x11 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x9 +x10 +x14)X(1+x3 +x6 +x9 +x11 +x12 +x14)X
(1+x4 + x11 +x12 +x14)X (1+x+X2 +x3 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x13 +x14).
3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:
modulating the LDPC coded signal; and transmitting the modulated signal.
modulating the LDPC coded signal; and transmitting the modulated signal.
4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the modulated signal is transmitted over a satellite link in support of a broadband satellite application.
5. A method according to claim 3, wherein the modulating step is performed according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
6. A computer-readable medium bearing instructions for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, said instructions, being arranged, upon execution, to cause one or more processors to perform the method of claim 1.
7. An encoder for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
means for receiving information bits; and means for generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
means for receiving information bits; and means for generating, based on the information bits, an Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-10 specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
8. An encoder according to claim 7, wherein a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) outer code is based on a generator polynomial of:
g(x)=(1+x+x3+x5+x14)x(1+x6+x8+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x6+x9+x10+x14)x (1+x+x7+x8+x10+x12+x14)x(1+x2+x4+x6+x8+x9+x11+x13+x14)x (1+x3+x7+x8+x9+x13+x14)x(1+x2+x5+x6+x7+x10+x11+x13+x14)x (1+x5+x8+x9+x10+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x3+x9+x10+x14)x(1+x1+x6+x9+x11+x12+x14)x (1+x4+x11+x12+x14)x(1+x+x2+x3+x5+x6+x7+x8+x10+x13+x14).
g(x)=(1+x+x3+x5+x14)x(1+x6+x8+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x6+x9+x10+x14)x (1+x+x7+x8+x10+x12+x14)x(1+x2+x4+x6+x8+x9+x11+x13+x14)x (1+x3+x7+x8+x9+x13+x14)x(1+x2+x5+x6+x7+x10+x11+x13+x14)x (1+x5+x8+x9+x10+x11+x14)x(1+x+x2+x3+x9+x10+x14)x(1+x1+x6+x9+x11+x12+x14)x (1+x4+x11+x12+x14)x(1+x+x2+x3+x5+x6+x7+x8+x10+x13+x14).
9. An encoder according to claim 7, further comprising:
means for modulating the LDPC coded signal; and means for transmitting the modulated signal.
means for modulating the LDPC coded signal; and means for transmitting the modulated signal.
10. An encoder according to claim 9, wherein the modulated signal is transmitted over a satellite link in support of a broadband satellite application.
11. An encoder according to claim 9, wherein the modulating step is performed according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
12. A transmitter for supporting transmission of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded signal, comprising:
a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder configured to receive information bits;
and a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder coupled to the BCH encoder for outputting, based on the information bits, an LDPC code having an outer BCH code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
a Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder configured to receive information bits;
and a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder coupled to the BCH encoder for outputting, based on the information bits, an LDPC code having an outer BCH code according to one of Tables 1-10 for transmission as the LDPC coded signal, each of the Tables 1-specifying address of parity bit accumulators:
Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/2) Table 1 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 3/5) Table 2 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/3) Table 3 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 3/4) Table 4 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 4/5) Table 5 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 5/6) Table 6 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 8/9) Table 7 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 1/3) Table 8 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Shortened from Rate 1/5) Table 9 Address of Parity Bit Accumulators (Rate 2/5) Table 10
13. A transmitter according to claim 12, wherein the BCH outer code is based on a generator polynomial of:
g(x) = (1+x+x3 +x5 + x14) x (1 +x6 +x8 +x11 +x14) x (1+x+x2 +x6 +x9 +x10 +x14) x (1+x4 +x7 +x8 +10 +x12 +x14)X (l+x2 +x4 +x6 +x8 +x9 +x11 +x13 +14)X
(1+x3+x7 +x8+x9 +x13+x14)X(1+x2+x5 +x6+x7 +x10+x11+x13+x14)X
(1+x5 +x8 +x9 +x10 +x11 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x9 +x10 +x14)x(1+x3 +x6 +x9 +x11 +x12 +x14)X
(1+X4 +x11 +x12 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x13 +x14).
g(x) = (1+x+x3 +x5 + x14) x (1 +x6 +x8 +x11 +x14) x (1+x+x2 +x6 +x9 +x10 +x14) x (1+x4 +x7 +x8 +10 +x12 +x14)X (l+x2 +x4 +x6 +x8 +x9 +x11 +x13 +14)X
(1+x3+x7 +x8+x9 +x13+x14)X(1+x2+x5 +x6+x7 +x10+x11+x13+x14)X
(1+x5 +x8 +x9 +x10 +x11 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x9 +x10 +x14)x(1+x3 +x6 +x9 +x11 +x12 +x14)X
(1+X4 +x11 +x12 +x14)X(1+x+x2 +x3 +x5 +x6 +x7 +x8 +x10 +x13 +x14).
14. A transmitter according to claim 12, further comprising:
a modulator configured to modulate the LDPC coded signal.
a modulator configured to modulate the LDPC coded signal.
15. A transmitter according to claim 14, wherein the modulated signal is transmitted over a satellite link in support of a broadband satellite application.
16. A transmitter according to claim 14, wherein the modulating step is performed according to a signal constellation that includes one of 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying), 16-QAM
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16-APSK
(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) and 32-APSK.
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